Another view

if i could afford the world
a view of another world
through my verses like the
ocean that hides yet magnifies
a world so glorious of its own -

freewheeling corals, zizagging fishes,
multihued starfishes, shells that grant
the ocean a contest of geometric elegance
giant meditative clam that turns out a luxurious
ochreous pearl impervious to the pounding waves
a monk zooming on zero desires for nirvana -

my life as a poet would have been well rewarded

the rainbow the sun never fails
to illuminate in the fall of heavenly
sweats and tears

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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